Musa Bility, the president of the Liberian FA, has been barred from running for the Fifa presidency.
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One of the seven candidates for the Fifa presidency has been excluded from the election after failing integrity checks.

Fifa’s electoral committee has announced that the Liberian football association president, Musa Bility, has not passed the check and is not eligible to stand, but is not making the reasons for his exclusion public.

The Asian Football Confederation president, Sheikh Salman Bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa, has passed the checks despite claims from human rights groups he was involved in a crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in his home country, Bahrain.

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The other candidates cleared are Prince Ali Bin al-Hussein of Jordan, the former Fifa official Jérôme Champagne from France, the Uefa general secretary, Gianni Infantino from Switzerland, and Tokyo Sexwale, a former anti-apartheid activist from South Africa.

The electoral committee will not carry out integrity checks on Michel Platini, the Uefa president who is currently suspended for 90 days pending an ethics committee hearing into a £1.3m payment he received from Fifa in 2011, until the disciplinary process is complete.

The election of the successor to Sepp Blatter, who is also under a 90-day suspension, takes place on 26 February.

“Each candidate was then asked to comment on the content of the detailed report produced. The ad-hoc electoral committee did not admit the candidature of Musa Hassan Bility, in view of the content of the integrity check report relating to him. For reasons of protection of personality rights, the committee – while it has explained its considerations in detail to Musa Hassan Bility – will not comment publicly on the specifics of its decision.”

The decision can be appealed at the court of arbitration for sport in Lausanne.